BelArgUSA... Sorry pal, but if you take ops word as sacred you'll dig yourself a hole! If you've had a problem, then when and IF you have time a call to ops to advise them of the options is fine, but don't let them decide your options FOR YOU. Indeed, it's YOUR licence on the line, so YOU make the decisions
It may not be the decision that the company would like, but that's tough titties. Nor tell me it's standard SOP (satisfied the CRM nutters) in all airlines to let ops decide what you should do with an abnormal 'cos it aint....